Just hang in there. Keep yourself busy until your appointment with the surgeon. It's nothing. Relax. You've already had the ultrasound. If it were something serious, it would've been picked up on ultrasound.

Any time you keep pressing on an area, it's just going to get more sore. I have been over-vigilant with the self-exams before and my breasts get incredibly tender. It's the same thing with the lymph node area around the armpits. I know it's hard not to think about it and keep pressing around it, but it might be making it worse.

The fact that it disappears and comes back really doesn't sound like cancer at all. I have a friend who had a similar cyst and it was just drained of fluid. She was fine and it wasn't any big deal for her.

Hang in there.

ETA: You may want to take an anti-inflammatory like Advil. I've heard that it can sometimes help with the discomfort from tender breasts. Oh, and watch out for caffeine in foods like chocolate. It's easy to forget that!

I haven't been poking at the bump, because that would be dumb and just make it hurt more. The only thing I've been doing is lightly massaging the lymph nodes in the upper part of my breasts near the underarms.

But my nipples just feel very sensitive and I'll just feel random pangs of pain around my areolas.

And I'll have these two specific sore spots in the bottom outer corners of the breast like right where the breast ends. Wearing a bra makes those spots even more sore so I haven't been. :/

And the sides of my breasts just seem sore and swollen. :|

Maybe I'll stop drinking the evening tea our family usually has and see how that makes me feel.

Okay so due to my little experiment I did I kind of think my issues are probably hormonal, due to the amount of stress, anxiety, and the issues I've been going through this month.

But I do want to get everything checked out and go to the surgeon's office. Especially because I have no idea what this painful bump is. It hasn't increased in size, I actually think it's decreased. It definitely doesn't feel as big. But I really want to know what it is.

It's funny because I have all these pregnancy symptoms...but I'm not pregnant.